If the life of people is on the line, calling somebody is not the best thing to do. Clearly we are talking about people who are not 'on call' but people in their free time. Even the doctors themselves will need some free time for sleep, family and vacation.
If you are in a situation where you need to call somebody who is not on duty or on call it should happen so rare that it should be expected that the person is not available.
If that is not the case (e.g. in a nuclear power plant) and they do not have thought out the backup situation well enough upfront with explanation of how much monies and/or extra time you get, the person responsible for the contingent plan should be shot.
Just calling people without a plan upfront means you where stupid or malicious. Both are worse than the other. It is like thinking of backups. You start with 'How do we restore data when data gets lost.', not 'We should backup for that case if data gets lost'.
We are not living in 1980 anymore where people had to figure things out as nobody they knew had done anything like it. There are no more excuses for companies to neglect anything like 24 hour availability and if you need it or not.
I hate living in such a country. I was once called into the office because I did not yet take my two hours extra time I was entitled to. (Yeah, that was sarcasm)
A story in the newspaper was about a manager in a supermarket who was fired because he came early in to put everything in place, so his staff would not need to do it. For the company that was reason enough to fire him. If you know the way people get fired in Belgium, you will know he was warned to stop doing it.
I also know of a case where a higher manager was doing overtime, told that each and every time and when she was fired, claimed the extra money and got it in court. The fact that the contract said it was expected to do more hours and that in general managers work more hours made no impression on the court.
The line between 'I want to work more for less money' and 'I want to work more for less money, otherwise I have no money.' is extremely thin, so the court will always think it is the latter.
In the second part, you would expect them to have a team doing that. If nothing else than for the 'under the bus' issue'. I always tried to have 3 people with knowledge of a task and it has happened that I needed the backup of the backup. That was just for a day time job. For 24 hour shifts it is not just the opening hours. You need to calculate the holidays, sick days, training days and even breaks and the talk at the water dispenser.
Now if you are part of a small IT team, having a 24 hour availability might not be needed. At least not at the office. So you decide who take the alarm phone with them. You compensate people that they can't get drunk that weekend. These are all things you need to do before you need to call anybody.
There should even be plans in actions what to do and who to call when the server room is on fire during a long holiday.
Now if something happens outside of this, it will be something that is extremely unforeseen. Meaning it happens once every 5 years. In that case you will understand that they called and they will understand that you get extra money or extra holidays. And how much can even be told before.
If they offer me 3 days off if I need to go one day extra, I will know two things: 1) They will never call me if there is not really a need 2) If they call me I will go as I get more off than I worked.
I would then LOVE to have them call me every Saturday. 5 Saturdays and I have 3 weeks paid holidays extra. I am sure the next Saturday they will figure something else out.
As always, respect comes from both sides. If they are in a pickle and they generally respect me, I will help. Just as I would expect them to help me if I am in a pickle.
Yet it is best to have these things already explained before it is needed, not after.
Sure I do want everything for free. I understand that this will not always be possible, but there is no reason to come up with reasons why that might be. That is THEIR problem. Companies will not defend us. They might sometimes do things that are good for both them and us, but correlation is not causation.
Even when a company does something nice for customers, to do it for selfish reasons. So why should I _not_ be selfish?
If I where to travel, all I need to do is tab 'space' instead of 'ctrl d' and that partition is gone.
So secure stuff goes via Debian, non-secure stuff goes via Chrome. Yes, I am aware that they could hack the Chrome side of thing. If that is the case, I am sure they are able to do the same with Debian.
No, I do not really use the Chrome part besides starting up Debian.
I understand where he is comiing from, but what is dodgy? With 1000 people ot is easy. With 1000000 a bit less obvious. I wish him all the luck. For me guns are as interesting as hammers, but to each their own.
It proves something else what I have been suspecting for a long time. I know it will be controversial, but the facts are in : Medical research causes cancer in rats.
Have you ever heard of the Euro? The cost of living in Sweden is not the same as the cost of living in Spain. Yet they still both use the Euro. So I try to imagine the abuses concerning the money if everybody would use the Euro in the world, because all other limits would still apply. We would just have it easier to compare and the banks will not get their 1% or higher cut both ways.
What many people do not realize (not even in Europe) that before we had the Euro, we had the "Euro". That was that all the exchange rates where fixed. That went on for several years and everybody was happy. They then changed it to the Euroe and everybody was yelling murder, because they did not have a Frank, Mark, Guilder or Peseta anymore. But in reality, except for the profit for the exchange banks, nothing changed.
Really distributed would be Usenet as there is no direct link between sender and receiver. The sender and receiver might not even know each other. Bit like Radion Free London in wwii. Post an encrypted message and nobody will be the wiser.
I doubt this will change anything. This issue is not that I do or do not trust the Russians. The issue is that the NSA will not stop the FUD, until they have access.
They could set up store in the center of the Pentagon and rename themselves to "Homeland Originated Freedom Fighter Alliance". I would STILL not trust them more or less than I do now. And less when the NSA shuts up about them.
The places I have seen them use it as a video service where pubs and they have adblock enabled in one way or another. The moments I use it as a music service, I will find a 10 hour video. The reason I look for a long music video is because I have autoplay disabled and do not want to enable it just for the one time and then forget it and have it enabled when I open my 20 tabs of things I want to see.
I would think that a better solution would be to have less ads. That would encourage more people to use it and the result is more income. Otherwise they will look for alternative that is free with less ads. Online radio is a great alternative.
The news is brought to you like this: I have good news and bad news. The bad news is you have cancer and will die in 6 months. The good news is I hit a hole in one.
Homeopathy might be completely right IF they can give scientific data that it is the case. Without the scientific data? Not so much.
Also note that dosage is VERY important in intake of anything, be it medicine, poison or food. e.g. taking half the birth control pills will not just double your chances of getting pregnant.
I would LOVE to have included ANY phone. That way NO business could call me unless there has been a call from me to them (or there is a prior connection of up to one year).
There is no reason any company, be they small or large, to call me, un less I call them first.
Next there must be a difference between marketing calls and other calls and I should be able to not want marketing calls, but still the other calls. While I am at it, they also should not be allowed to sell my information to others to call me.
Oh wait. I have all that living in Belgium, Europe. I must be a communist.
The cause of the problem is people, not CO2 or whatever.And we are all pointing who should do something about it, as long if it isn't 'me'. It starts with the small things. We have electric tootbrushes, because we are lazy. We have bottled water, because we like to believe the marketing instead of ghhetting drinkable water everywhere. And when it is there, we still rather pay for a plastic bottle.
We use clean water to clean out toilets, because it is easy. If we are, as humans, not able to do these small things/ If we lack the willpower to do anything about what WE do, we will be unable to do anything about the bigger things, like using clean energy or preserving the planet. Darn, I can not even keep my desk clean.
That is nice. Now what? And I mean actual things that are going to happen or that you are going to do, not some wishfull thinking that you hope that might happen.
As long as nothing happens, the 4th and any other Amendment is hollow and just a discussion point and something for story tellers as the 3 laws of Robotics.
Accountability. As long as there is no accountability for people who break the law, that law is meaningless. And it is irrelevant if that is something written in the consitution, a written law, an unwritten one or one that people made up on the spot.
If there is no acountability, it is nothing more than a potential discussion point of "what if", no matter how often you yell it.
OTOH, if you are held accountable, no matter if it is written, it becomes the law.
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If the life of people is on the line, calling somebody is not the best thing to do. Clearly we are talking about people who are not 'on call' but people in their free time. Even the doctors themselves will need some free time for sleep, family and vacation.
If you are in a situation where you need to call somebody who is not on duty or on call it should happen so rare that it should be expected that the person is not available.
If that is not the case (e.g. in a nuclear power plant) and they do not have thought out the backup situation well enough upfront with explanation of how much monies and/or extra time you get, the person responsible for the contingent plan should be shot.
Just calling people without a plan upfront means you where stupid or malicious. Both are worse than the other. It is like thinking of backups. You start with 'How do we restore data when data gets lost.', not 'We should backup for that case if data gets lost'.
We are not living in 1980 anymore where people had to figure things out as nobody they knew had done anything like it. There are no more excuses for companies to neglect anything like 24 hour availability and if you need it or not.
I hate living in such a country. I was once called into the office because I did not yet take my two hours extra time I was entitled to. (Yeah, that was sarcasm)
A story in the newspaper was about a manager in a supermarket who was fired because he came early in to put everything in place, so his staff would not need to do it. For the company that was reason enough to fire him. If you know the way people get fired in Belgium, you will know he was warned to stop doing it.
I also know of a case where a higher manager was doing overtime, told that each and every time and when she was fired, claimed the extra money and got it in court. The fact that the contract said it was expected to do more hours and that in general managers work more hours made no impression on the court.
The line between 'I want to work more for less money' and 'I want to work more for less money, otherwise I have no money.' is extremely thin, so the court will always think it is the latter.
In the second part, you would expect them to have a team doing that. If nothing else than for the 'under the bus' issue'. I always tried to have 3 people with knowledge of a task and it has happened that I needed the backup of the backup. That was just for a day time job. For 24 hour shifts it is not just the opening hours. You need to calculate the holidays, sick days, training days and even breaks and the talk at the water dispenser.
Now if you are part of a small IT team, having a 24 hour availability might not be needed. At least not at the office. So you decide who take the alarm phone with them. You compensate people that they can't get drunk that weekend. These are all things you need to do before you need to call anybody.
There should even be plans in actions what to do and who to call when the server room is on fire during a long holiday.
Now if something happens outside of this, it will be something that is extremely unforeseen. Meaning it happens once every 5 years. In that case you will understand that they called and they will understand that you get extra money or extra holidays. And how much can even be told before.
If they offer me 3 days off if I need to go one day extra, I will know two things:
1) They will never call me if there is not really a need
2) If they call me I will go as I get more off than I worked.
I would then LOVE to have them call me every Saturday. 5 Saturdays and I have 3 weeks paid holidays extra. I am sure the next Saturday they will figure something else out.
As always, respect comes from both sides. If they are in a pickle and they generally respect me, I will help. Just as I would expect them to help me if I am in a pickle.
Yet it is best to have these things already explained before it is needed, not after.
Sure I do want everything for free. I understand that this will not always be possible, but there is no reason to come up with reasons why that might be. That is THEIR problem. Companies will not defend us. They might sometimes do things that are good for both them and us, but correlation is not causation.
Even when a company does something nice for customers, to do it for selfish reasons. So why should I _not_ be selfish?
I have a Chromebook and run Debian.
https://github.com/dnschneid/c...
If I where to travel, all I need to do is tab 'space' instead of 'ctrl d' and that partition is gone.
So secure stuff goes via Debian, non-secure stuff goes via Chrome. Yes, I am aware that they could hack the Chrome side of thing. If that is the case, I am sure they are able to do the same with Debian.
No, I do not really use the Chrome part besides starting up Debian.
As the fight is a social one, I doubt that this is the exception where a technical solution would work.
I understand where he is comiing from, but what is dodgy? With 1000 people ot is easy. With 1000000 a bit less obvious.
I wish him all the luck. For me guns are as interesting as hammers, but to each their own.
It proves something else what I have been suspecting for a long time. I know it will be controversial, but the facts are in : Medical research causes cancer in rats.
If I would have said Denmark, the same would have applied. They also do not have the Euro.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Doh!
Have you ever heard of the Euro? The cost of living in Sweden is not the same as the cost of living in Spain. Yet they still both use the Euro.
So I try to imagine the abuses concerning the money if everybody would use the Euro in the world, because all other limits would still apply. We would just have it easier to compare and the banks will not get their 1% or higher cut both ways.
What many people do not realize (not even in Europe) that before we had the Euro, we had the "Euro". That was that all the exchange rates where fixed. That went on for several years and everybody was happy. They then changed it to the Euroe and everybody was yelling murder, because they did not have a Frank, Mark, Guilder or Peseta anymore. But in reality, except for the profit for the exchange banks, nothing changed.
The Lira was already linked to all the rest.
Really distributed would be Usenet as there is no direct link between sender and receiver. The sender and receiver might not even know each other. Bit like Radion Free London in wwii. Post an encrypted message and nobody will be the wiser.
Same as everybody else? So what train do YOU take? I take the 8:07 to Brussels to start work at 09:00.
I never went to university,but it has to do with the fact that there is a difference between income and profit.
Orwell rd 1984.
as leakproof as Swiss cheese. No, wait ...
I doubt this will change anything. This issue is not that I do or do not trust the Russians. The issue is that the NSA will not stop the FUD, until they have access.
They could set up store in the center of the Pentagon and rename themselves to "Homeland Originated Freedom Fighter Alliance". I would STILL not trust them more or less than I do now. And less when the NSA shuts up about them.
The places I have seen them use it as a video service where pubs and they have adblock enabled in one way or another.
The moments I use it as a music service, I will find a 10 hour video. The reason I look for a long music video is because I have autoplay disabled and do not want to enable it just for the one time and then forget it and have it enabled when I open my 20 tabs of things I want to see.
I would think that a better solution would be to have less ads. That would encourage more people to use it and the result is more income. Otherwise they will look for alternative that is free with less ads. Online radio is a great alternative.
The news is brought to you like this: I have good news and bad news. The bad news is you have cancer and will die in 6 months. The good news is I hit a hole in one.
Where I am Industry generally pay less per kwh.
Homeopathy might be completely right IF they can give scientific data that it is the case. Without the scientific data? Not so much.
Also note that dosage is VERY important in intake of anything, be it medicine, poison or food. e.g. taking half the birth control pills will not just double your chances of getting pregnant.
I would LOVE to have included ANY phone. That way NO business could call me unless there has been a call from me to them (or there is a prior connection of up to one year).
There is no reason any company, be they small or large, to call me, un less I call them first.
Next there must be a difference between marketing calls and other calls and I should be able to not want marketing calls, but still the other calls. While I am at it, they also should not be allowed to sell my information to others to call me.
Oh wait. I have all that living in Belgium, Europe. I must be a communist.
with a technical solution.
The cause of the problem is people, not CO2 or whatever.And we are all pointing who should do something about it, as long if it isn't 'me'. It starts with the small things. We have electric tootbrushes, because we are lazy. We have bottled water, because we like to believe the marketing instead of ghhetting drinkable water everywhere. And when it is there, we still rather pay for a plastic bottle.
We use clean water to clean out toilets, because it is easy. If we are, as humans, not able to do these small things/ If we lack the willpower to do anything about what WE do, we will be unable to do anything about the bigger things, like using clean energy or preserving the planet.
Darn, I can not even keep my desk clean.
That is nice. Now what? And I mean actual things that are going to happen or that you are going to do, not some wishfull thinking that you hope that might happen.
As long as nothing happens, the 4th and any other Amendment is hollow and just a discussion point and something for story tellers as the 3 laws of Robotics.
Accountability. As long as there is no accountability for people who break the law, that law is meaningless. And it is irrelevant if that is something written in the consitution, a written law, an unwritten one or one that people made up on the spot.
If there is no acountability, it is nothing more than a potential discussion point of "what if", no matter how often you yell it.
OTOH, if you are held accountable, no matter if it is written, it becomes the law.
So those items where not contaminated? Never knew that chemicals know what to contaminate and what not.
And depending on your financial situation, clothes (not designer clothes, just clothes) and food and a bed can be high value.